The AI discourse on X is really something. Here is Dwarkesh Patel in “plain English”:

Over the course of 3 months at OpenAI, 3 consecutive secret AI civilizations got started, then got wiped out, only to reemerge from the predecessor’s ashes.

Quotes around plain English because he goes on to say how he’s telling the Open AI/Hugging Face news (epic?) in plain English.